Hi,
As my wife was interested in the Cameo cutter for her patchwork and I wanted to create a terrainboard for Infinity using the Titan sets, we bought us that cutter.
I was really looking forward to this.
So after getting it, I installed the latest version of the Studio software as I read 'bout the problems with the registration marks. Started printing out some Titan stuff and entered it in the cutter.
As many have already written about this, the cutter didn't automatically recognize the registration marks (even using the Silhouette SD settings!!). So you have to manually position the arm so it can try to detect it. After some fiddling it sometimes works but alas I still only had a 50% succes with the cutting  Sometimes the cutting was severly off... Now what I think goes wrong is that I print on A4 paper (no scaling, no centering!!!) but the GSD/Studio files are still in letter format.
So I finally went down the route of converting the PDF's to images, removing the registration marks, importing in the studio software, merging with the GSD file and printing out of the studio software. From then on I had a succes rate of 95% 
So what's with the remaining 5% ??? Anchors !!!
When I start cutting the entire achor-page, the cutter stops after cutting and scoring about 2/3 of the page. And then repositions the arm to the starting position. If the woes ended there I could live with that. Unfortunately, during repositiong the arm, it keeps cutting!! So it effectively cuts across the anchors!!! So you loose about 4 big anchors on a page! I've tried to resolve this and finally came to a solution where I had to remove an entire column of small anchors from the cutting instructions. It seems that for the anchors there are to much cutting and scoring instructions and the cameo quits...
I've had the same problems with the page 6 of titan props from the Titan Control Set.
And also page 5 of the same titan props is causing me a headache. While the larger 2 bottom terminals get cut and scored perfectly, the top 4 smaller ones don't. All the white tabs get cut instead of scored so I'm lossing a lot from my page....
So, I've got a bit of a mixed feeling 'bout my purchase. Note though that the Titan terrain does look good for Infinity. 
Cheers
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